But then he'll swear up and down that working a trade where you have to follow detailed instructions or on an assembly line where you're following detailed instructions or even an engineer where you have to follow detailed instructions as part of your job, or a chemist, or or or....because ultimately every job has procedures, an order of doing things, and detailed instructions...that men aren't doing the exact same thing and so "menial" work has nothing to do with justification of pay.

Almost all jobs have a menial component to them too.

Also, the "high risk" jobs, that usually have extensive safety requirements btw, are not where workplace injuries are occurring with exceptions like police work but even that gets down to procedural choices.

Most work place injuries or deaths come from either showboating or horsing around (the injured worker themselves or someone in their vicinity) or reckless disregard of safety procedures (either the injured worker themselves or someone along the procedural line). One only has to look at workplace injury and death statistics of the US compared against other countries for this fact to become glaringly obvious.